I am fairly familiar with photo shop in terms of media projects, I do not know how to use many other programs since school was cut short. I have a touch screen computer with Photoshop and other editing software at home. To help me learn remotely if would be good if everything we need to turn is clearly marked on google classroom with due dates. Also having information available outside of the zoom as it is hard to pick everything up from there. One thing I accomplished before covid was I had my own art show outside of school where I got to show my work and I hope to do this again.

This is my silhouette project. It is a collage of many portraits I drew previously inside a profile view image of myself filled in with red. The background is of dramatically lit flowers with hints of red in them that compliment the base color of the silhouette. The principle of unity is found throughout the similarity of the images in the piece all being of people’s faces. Also the element of line is found in the piece surrounding the profile, being shown using the difference between the color of the background and foreground. I used Photoshop to create my art. I took pictures of my original traditional art and uploaded them to Photoshop. After coloring in my silhouette I added the images and cut out the area around the faces and then added the background. The work was inspired by my other artwork and I wanted to showcase them all in once piece. I thought the concept was cool because it is a bunch of portraits inside another portrait. I learned how to use many tools on Photoshop during this project such as cropping, how to open a file into another project, how to use masking tools, how to use layers and how to use magic select to crop the photos used for the project. I also learned good websites to use to find free high resolution images to use for projects that are non-copyright. The final piece turned out pretty close to how I imagined it. I would’ve tried to add more images next time and spread the images more evenly throughout the face. I also would have tried to increase the saturation of the pictures in the profile. Overall though I liked the piece and the way it came out.

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My previous experience with digital art is using sketch on my phone and a few different editing apps on my laptop. I also learned about and created digital art for my 20% time project for Mr. Degrandis’s class.

I am responsible if the computer crashes and my work is lost. It should be backed up to my google drive or a USB.

I will back up my work on a USB drive, it more organized than my google drive.

It is important to post on your blog every class so that there is proof of progress and you are able to see the work I have done.

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— Oscar Wilde.

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